South exposures the go

Hello Friends,
A mostly sunny start for us on Tuesday with light WNW wind and 1.3 metres of 10-second SSE swell. The best exposures should be seeing set wave faces in the chest plus range but mostly it’ll be much smaller than that. The first tide of the day is a 1.43 m high at 0830. Weather outlook is set to stay mostly sunny as we head to a high of 22. Beachwatch is reporting clean water which has warmed up a touch to 18C.
The Bureau tells us that the wind will increase to 15-20 kts from the north as the day goes along, so south ends will likely be a choppy mess by the time we’re back to low tide at 1415.
According to both the ECMWF and GFS swell models, we should have a little something in the waist-ish high range at optimal SSE exposures (but with stiff northerlies) for Wednesday. After that the models are showing swell heights of under a metre well into next week. Sadly.



Weather Situation
A high pressure system lies over the Tasman Sea, extending a ridge into New South Wales with northeasterly winds across the far eastern areas today. Northerly winds will freshen ahead of an approaching cold front and its associated trough, which is expected to bring a westerly change to southern and central waters during Wednesday. Then the trough is forecast to linger over the northern coast while another trough brushes the state’s south on Thursday.
Forecast for Tuesday until midnight
Strong Wind Warning for Tuesday for Sydney Coast

Wednesday 21 August
Strong Wind Warning for Wednesday for Sydney Coast

Thursday 22 August